Chapter 4 I Am the King
Yi Xingchen inherited the king's farm and also inherited the information of the king's soul, which is equivalent to having the key to open the other world - the blue light door.
After a connection, Yi Xingchen understood that this "King's Farm" is actually the medium between Blue Mercury and the other world, and it is the passage between the two worlds.
Yi Xingchen slowly sorted out the current situation he was facing. The people who knelt before him seemed to be the people of the king who had left his last words. They had apparently regarded Yi Xingchen as a king.
"Who are you?" Yi Xingchen asked with a feigned indifference.
Although Yi Xingchen received the information left by the king and also gained the ability to speak in another world, he was essentially a human of Blue Mercury and an ordinary person. In the face of this rock hall, dozens of people knelt down and surrendered, and their hearts were inevitably nervous. It's just that he can't let the people in front of him see the clues, so he has to try his best to cover it up on the surface and maintain calm.
"Returning to Your Majesty, I am your Court Deacon, Sheehan. The man in the palace uniform who knelt down first replied respectfully.
Yi Xingchen was not used to sitting on the stone chair, and moved his ass slightly. He thought for a moment and, based on the king's remaining message, asked, "Sheehan, I want to know the situation of our kingdom after its defeat. ”
When Sheen heard this, he recalled the hard days in the past, and his voice could not hide his sadness, and said: "The kingdom is defeated, and the country is ruined. The entire kingdom was divided and its people were sold as slaves. Later, thousands of remnants of the kingdom who did not want to be slaves of the country fled all the way, migrated all the way, and went through hardships all the way before finally stopping here in the Valley of Oblivion.
Now, ten years later. We're kind of rooted in the Valley of Oblivion. However, we have never forgotten the glory of the Kingdom in the past, and we hope that one day His Majesty will return and continue to lead us in rebuilding our homeland.
Finally, we've waited for this day!" Sheehan said this, his voice became a little shaky, and the dignified man couldn't help but choke up tears and mourn, "Now, a full decade has passed. In the Valley of Oblivion, there are still five hundred and thirty-eight citizens of the kingdom. Among them, 100 are adults, 338 are over 50 years old, and 100 are children under 10 years old. ”
"Why are there so few people left?" Yi Xingchen asked.
"The Valley of Oblivion, though not invaded by enemy nations, has a bad environment, a ferocious beast that has taken the lives of too many of us," Sheehan replied sadly.
Yi Xingchen frowned. Although he was not in it, he could also feel a little of Sheehan's sadness. Once a great country, after the defeat of the war, there was almost nothing, and the grief is indescribable.
Then, Yi Xingchen continued to learn the specific situation of the Forgotten Valley from Sheen's mouth.
At the moment, the number of remnants of the kingdom is too small. It's not impossible to rebuild a country, but it's reluctant. What's more, the Valley of Oblivion they are in is in an extremely hostile environment. First, the climate here is changeable, which is not suitable for human farming, and second, living here is always threatened by fierce beasts.
In the Valley of Oblivion, the temperature varies greatly from over 25 degrees Celsius during the day to below 10 degrees Celsius at night. Survivors with slightly worse physical resistance can easily get sick. When the remnants were just settled, the flu killed thousands of people in the first year.
On the outskirts of the Valley of Oblivion is a land of uninhabited primeval forests. Therefore, there are often some fierce beasts and poisonous insects in the valley.
In order to survive, the remnants could not grow food, and they could not rely on some edible plants in the valley to have enough, so they had to go hunting. But in the process of hunting, they often encounter some fierce beasts. Although beasts of prey are the prey of humans, in the eyes of beasts, humans are also their prey.
It was only after losing many people that these remnants learned how to survive in the Valley of Oblivion. But even so, or people, and no one feels safe.
This kind of life of fear will not last long, and perhaps, before long, the remnants will either disappear into the Valley of Oblivion or will have to continue to flee.
Sheehan, as the remaining court deacon of the kingdom, is the only pastor of the church. He knew the plans of the king's sanctuary and had always believed that the kingdom would rise again. Every night, he would take a "key of God" left by the church and lead the people in prayer.
In fact, the effect of this "God's key" is similar to that of a positioning device.
Not long ago, Sheehan was leading a group of remnants in the Rock Hall, performing a prayer ceremony. This is also the reason why Yi Xingchen opened the Blue Light Gate, and the other exit of the Blue Light Gate would appear in the Rock Hall.
After listening to Sheen's account, Yi Xingchen thought for a while and asked, "So, are you short of food now?"
"Yes. Your Majesty, we are short of food, but we would prefer you to lead us out of the Valley of Oblivion and regain our foothold on the continent. Xian looked at Yi Xingchen as he spoke, his eyes flashing with a strange light.
"Solve your eating problem first!" Yi Xingchen said with a wave of his hand. I don't know if it was influenced by the king's soul, but he did see them as his own people, and was full of pity for these remnants.
After a slight pause, Yi Xingchen continued to ask, "Are there any specialties in the Valley of Oblivion, such as precious ores, precious wood, precious herbs, and so on. If there is, I can travel to another world through the space passage to exchange for food so that you can have a full meal. If you have a surplus, you can also buy a batch of warm clothes to tide over the cold. ”
Sheen immediately turned to the people at the bottom of the steps, and said, "Have you heard the order of His Majesty? Go and bring all the items we have collected to the palace, and ask His Majesty to look at them and find out what is valuable." ”
It was a matter of the future, a matter of life and death, and everyone in the hall did not hesitate and dispersed.
In fact, the Rock Hall is also a stone house. Moreover, the place where the people lived was obviously not far from the Rock Hall. It didn't take long for everyone to come back one after another with all kinds of things, and put them in the center of the hall one by one.
Looking at the almost piled hall, Yi Xingchen walked down from the throne on the steps and carefully inspected them one by one.
At the top of the list are the things that everyone in the hall thinks are the most valuable, mainly the complete skins of various animals. But they didn't know that animal fur was the first item that Yi Xingchen wanted to exclude.
What are you kidding, as long as Yi Xingchen dares to return to Blue Mercury with these animal skins, I am afraid that before he can find a sales channel for the furs, the Earth Protection Animal Society will be the first to come to the door and ask him to explain the origin of these animal skins.
Perhaps, the Huaguo police will also fine Yi Xingchen for poaching rare animals, and even arrest him in prison, which is possible.